Playing-cards.



B. HARPSTER.

PLAYING CARDS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.2, I915.

Patented Nov. 14, 1916.

Mr WM H C a B invirnn STATES PATENT OFFIGE.

BERT HARPSTER, OF BURQHARD, NEBRASKA.

PLAYING-cha s.

To all whom it may concern 'Be it known that I, BERT HARPSTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burchard, in the county of Pawnee and State of Nebraska, have invented new and useful Improvements in Playing-Cards, of which the following is a specification.

. The invention relates to cards made up for the playing of a distinctive game, the various cards having a playing value in their own respective suits and a counting value in accordance with their number.

The improved game :is to be known as J itney and is made up of a series of cards which may be varied in accordance with their design and number to suit any special conditions, though the playing value and counting value-of the cards are the same.

In the accompanying drawings: Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 show cards illustrative of the main playing cards; Fig. 5 is a view of one of the cards, known as penalty cards.

The game apparatus consists of a series of cards constituting a pack, the pack being made of any number of cards. The cards are divided into what may be termed suits, and conditions control the number of cards of a suit. For example in the four cards illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive their face design which so far as the ornamental features are concerned may be anything de sired, include the name Ford, that is, the name of a certain make of automobile. On each of these four cards one letter there of, a different letter on each card of the name so illustrated will'be distinctively colored, and the distinctively colored letter represents the playing value of that card. For example in the four cards illustrated the first has the F distinctively colored, the second the O the third the R and the fourth the D It is contemplated that the pack of cards will be made of a series of suits, each suit representing the name of a make or type of automobile and there being one card for each different letter in that name, the cards of that suit being equal in number to the number of letters in the name, and each card of that suit, so far as its playing value is concerned representing one letter of that name. With the pack made up of any number of cards, dependent upon the number of automobiles selected and the number of letters in such names, the cards will be shuttled and dealt in theusualmanner, each player Specification of Letters Patent. Patgfified NOV. 14 1916,

Application filed August 2, 1915. Serial No. 43,249.

receiving av certain number and the remaining cards being placed face" down on the table to be drawn from by the players. The

central pack to be drawn from will be known;

as the public garage. The players carry out the game by in regular order drawing a card from thepublic garage pack and immediately succeeding such. actlo-n discarding anycard, even the one so drawn, from his-hand.

The discarded cards are placed face up in front of the player and are known as the players private garage. The cards of a playe'rs private garage may be drawn by any other player when the turn of that player-arrives. The object of courseof the game is for any. one or more players to free his'hand of all cards contained, and this can only be accomplished by holding in his hand;- all the cards -of a suit, that is, the cards which together,

in their distinctive letter values, spell the name of the particular automobile. When a player has secured a set of cards, that is a complete suit in his hand, he may discard this suit as an entirety, laying it face down on the table so that the other players may not see it. By this means the successful player will eventually rid his hand of all cards, at which time he is said to jitney which he announces as evidence that all of his cards have been legitimately disposed of, whereupon he wins that hand.

There are four penalty cards known as honk-honk cards one of which is illustrated in Fig. 5 of the drawings and they have no relation to any particular suit but should be played wild, that is, they may be substituted for any letter in any suit. These cards count five against the holder at end of hand but count the same as any other card when discarded with a complete name. If a player holds one. of these cards he can demand all of any one suit from another player providing he has one or more of the same suit in his hand. Upon receiving such demanded cards from the other player the player so demanding must exchange for such cards the honk-honk card. If player on whom demand is made has none of the suit demanded player making such demand surrenders the honk-honk card without anything in exchange. No cards are drawn when honk-honk card is exchanged. A name cannot be formed with all honk-honk cards, a player must hold one or more of the suit. After a player calls jitney or cards are all drawnfrom .the public garage the Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

score is determined by counting as follows: Each cardof a complete set laid down by any one player counts one point in favor of that player, while the cards held in his hand count against him. The successful player of each hand therefore has all of the points in his favor, while the remaining players have possibly some points in favor and some against them, which in the difference between the amounts present the marks for or against the particular player.

The cards are preferably ornamented on the back with'pictures of automobiles and the word J itney, and on the face as previously described, it being at present contemplated that the face of each card will have a picture of the particular automobile with which that'card is concerned, while the balance of the space on the card, if any, may be used for advertising purposes.

a The cards furnish an amusing game as they may be so marked as to indicate various details of the particular automobile and thus become instructive as well as entertaining.

What is claimed is:

suit corresponding in number to the num-l ber of letters in the name of an automobile, each card of the suit representing in its playing value a particular and different letter of that name, and a series of cards in addition to the suit cards, the cards of said series being capable of use to represent any letter of the particular name.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of, two witnesses. BERT HARPSTER. Witnesses: t J. F. Cox,

FRANK E. Cox.

Washington, D. G. 

